Halloween Countdown: October 21 - Kirk versus the spiders

Hey, Dr. Robert "Rack" Hansen, you might want to be careful. Reliable sources tell me that the place is full of spiders.

You can't say I didn't warn you, pal.

1977's Kingdom of the Spiders is just one of the many "animal attack" films that graced screens both big and small during my childhood, but the towering presence of William Tiberius Shatner sets this otherwise by-the-numbers affair head, shoulders, and polyester slacks above the rest of the genre pack. I daresay it's the best project involving small, hairy nightmares that The Shat has ever starred in...unless you count his time spent on T.J. Hooker opposite Adrian Zmed.

Plus, the film's ending is still pretty creepy in a really obvious and cheap-looking kind of way. (If you're going to pass off acrylic landscape paintings as aerial shots, it helps if the painter understands the concept of two-point perspective.)